15 Easy Plants to Grow in Your Garden
As a busy gardener, you want beautiful and easy plants to grow. Whether you need an annual, perennial or shrub, these easy outdoor plants will guarantee success.
Top 5 Easy Annual Plants
SUREFIRE® Begonia benariensis (buy online)
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The easiest petunia for landscapes. Hands down. Supertunia Vista varieties deliver an outstanding performance the entire season, lasting an extra month in southern states and well into fall in moderate climates. They flower earlier, grow taller and wider, and spread more vigorously than other petunias. No deadheading is needed for these plants to bloom from spring through fall. |
Gardeners have grown to love the Proven Winners line of thornless, seedless, odorless, non-sticky cleomes. They exhibit excellent heat, humidity and drought tolerance, bloom spring through fall and have minimal oedema issues. They are excellent spring extenders and offer all-season color on easy to care for plants. |
Extremely versatile in sun and shade, containers and landscapes, ColorBlaze Coleus are a must-have for vibrant landscapes. Their broad color range ensures there’s a variety to match every style scheme. All ColorBlaze Coleus are bred to be non-flowering or very late flowering, so you won’t have to pinch off any blooms to maintain their neat appearance throughout the season. |
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Top 5 Easy Perennials
The shorter, more compact habit of these native cultivars make them easier to manage than the full-sized species and they require little water and fertilizer to thrive. They top out at just 2 ½-3 feet tall and wide at maturity, bearing long spikes of colorful flowers in spring. Do NOT deadhead Baptisia! Doing so will remove the decorative seed pods that provide interest from fall through winter. |
Daylilies are one of the easiest perennials to grow and very low maintenance too. With little effort from the gardener, they thrive in sunny landscapes year after year. Other than removing spent flower stalks for a neater appearance, they only require division every few years. Proven Winners offers five of the very best cultivars available in a rainbow of colors. |
Coral Bells are remarkably versatile in containers and landscapes, offering evergreen color in delicious shades of purple, near-black, chartreuse and apricot. Trimming off the old foliage once a year in spring is the only maintenance required. In warmer zones without extreme temperature swings, gardeners won’t have to worry about heaving. In the north, Heucheras may need to be reset every few years to rebury the root ball. |
A reliable standby for shade gardens, hostas return faithfully year after year, multiplying quickly to form a sizable clump. You’ll have plenty to share within just a few years. Some protection from deer and rabbits may be needed if they are problem in your garden. Slugs are a common issue, but can be avoided by doing a thorough cleanup in fall to eliminate their eggs. |
 ROCK ‘N GROW™ Sedum (buy online)Autumn Stonecrop is an excellent choice for low maintenance, low water landscapes. This is a plant you can truly plant and forget, as it thrives in almost any type of dry to average soil with little to no fertilization. Deer are the only pest you may encounter with this durable, long-lived perennial. For visual interest throughout winter, do not deadhead the russet seed heads until the following spring. |
Top 5 Easy Shrubs
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Arborvitaes are commonly found in many gardens and for good reason—these evergreens make a very low maintenance living screen and add structure to the landscape. North Pole® is a popular selection that forms a narrow, upright column about 10-15’ tall and resists winter burn while maintaining a zone 3 hardiness. Thujas come in a variety of different shapes and colors, and can be pruned to suit your needs. |
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Barberries are popular foundation shrubs due to their brightly colored purple, gold and red foliage which often takes on glowing fall colors. Their colorful foliage plays especially well off of evergreen shrubs and trees. Sunjoy barberries are available in a range of colors and sizes, each bred to keep its size and shape naturally with little need for pruning. Gold Pillar is a favorite for its bright gold foliage and unique columnar shape. |
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